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No. 276,413. Patented Apr. 24. 1883.

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WELCOME H. HULL AND DAVID L. sMoKE, or WHITE HALL, VIRGINIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,413, dated April 24, 1883. Application filed March 3, 1883. (No model),

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WELCOME H. HULL and DAVID L. SMOKE, of White Hall,in the county of Frederick and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Cider-"Wills; and we do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of theinventiomwhich will enable others skilled'in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved fruit grinder and press, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Our invention has relation to fruit grinders and presses; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letterA indicates a rectangular trough, to the sides of which are fastened six (or more orless) uprights, B, forming bearin gs for the grinding and pressing rollers. A hopper, O, is fastened to one pair of the uprights B, and the sides of the same are inclined toward the middle of the trough, while the grinding roller or rollers D are journaled in the same. The inclined sides of this hopper allow the pomace or vegetable pulp to fall, after itis ground, upon anendless apron, E, which is carried over rollers journaledin the uprights B and in bearings upon the edges of the trough. The grinding-rollers receive their motion from a large cog-wheel, F, journaled upon the side of the trough and connected with the motive power, which intermeshes with apinion, G, upon the shaft of the grinding-roller, and which, furthermore, intermeshes with and communicates motion to a cog-wheel, H, upon the shaft of one of the resser-rollers I, and through that to another cog-whee], J, which is fastened upon the shaft of one of the presser-rol-lers K. The endless apron E is carried over a roller, L, journaled in bearings M upon the edges of the trough, near the end, and passes under the hopper, re-

ceiving the ground pomace, from whence it passes between the presser-rollers I, and from these rollers between the presser-rollers K, and around and under the lower one of the latter, back to the roller L. The bearings of roller L slide in ways upon the edges of the trough, and may be adjusted, so as to take up slack in the endless apron, by means of screws N, passing through the bearings and turning in. the ends of the ways, and the bearings for the lower one of the rollers I andthe upper one of the rollers K slidein ways 0 and P in the uprights l3, and are pressed against the other rollers by means of strong rubber or steel springsP', so that the pomace, when it passes between the rollers upon the endless apron, will be subjected to a sufficiently heavy pressure to press all the juice contained in it out. The end of the trough near the rollers K forms a beveled and slightly inward bent edge, Q, which bears against the endless apron as it passes around the lower roller K, and serves to scrape off the pomace after it is pressed, allowing it to drop outside the trough.

By the construction of the hopper, the sides.

being inclined toward the middle of the apron, the pomace will be deposited upon the middle of the same, preventing it from falling off the apron down into the juice but for further preventing anypomace from falling into the juice we provide an inclined perforated sieve or strainer, 1t, spanniu g the full width and length of the trough, and inclined toward the end nearest to the hopper, where it opens, allowing what pomace may fall olf the apron to slide into a receptacle, which may be emptied into the hoppper, allowing it to fall upon the apron a second time.

By the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the operation of our machine will be readily understood without further description.

Having thus described our invention, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent ot the United States As an improvement in fiuit grinders and presses, the combination and arrangement of the trough A, having beveled scraping-edge Q, hopper. 0, having centrally-inclined sides, our own we have hereunto aflixed our signagrinding-rollers D,presser-roll ers Iand K, havtures in presence of two witnesses. ing springs P cog-wheels F, H, and J roller I L, endless apron E, and. inclined sieve or %%P 5 strainer R, all constructed to operate substani tially as and for the purpose shown and set Witnesses: forth. R. M. EGGLESTON, r

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as O. S. JEFFERSON. 

